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(Previous Incident Codes: R3769RS3989)
Three civilians were reportedly injured in alleged Russian air or artillery strikes on Kfar Zeita after midnight on August 1st, 2019. While multiple sources reported the strikes, only the Syrian Civil Defence reported civilian casualties.
The Syrian Civil Defence in Hama (@civil_hama) reported that three civilians were injured as a result of airstrikes by Russian aircraft after midnight.
@IdlibPlus tweeted: “Russian warplanes target the city of Kfar Zeita in the northern Hama countryside with air strikes.”
According to @muslim2day, “the Russian occupation targets with rocket launchers and artillery shells the city of Kfar Zeita in the northern Hama countryside in conjunction with the flight of Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the sky”, but did not mention any civilian harm.
All sources blamed Russia for the strikes.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Kfar Zeita (كفر زيتا), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.374143, 36.601896. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.